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...Widespread use may be years off, but microgeneration is starting to catch on. In Goudouras, a small seaside village in southeastern Crete, Greenpeace helped set up Greece's first grid-connected solar power unit, at the local elementary school. The solar system mollified residents who opposed plans for a potentially environmentally harmful oil-powered plant in nearby Atherinolakkos...
Princeton University’s decision to recruit a controversial Columbia University Middle Eastern studies professor is eliciting widespread complaints from students and alumni of the New Jersey university...
...even with few cougars in the region, widespread paranoia has settled in. Iowa has recorded hundreds of false sightings (five confirmed ones) over the past two years. "Almost every case is a mistaken identity," says Ron Andrews of Iowa's department of natural resources. "They're probably just seeing the neighbor's dog." --By Wendy Cole
...nothing has added urgency to Koizumi's efforts as China's "peaceful rise" to economic and political power. After months of escalation, tensions climaxed two weeks ago when protests in China over Japanese schoolbook revisions that glossed over some of Japan's worst World War II atrocities metastasized into widespread anti-Japanese riots. Newspaper editorials and politicians in Japan began talking ominously about "the lowest point in Sino-Japanese relations in 30 years" and the rising likelihood of an "Asian cold...
...demonstrated just how close our current infrastructure and social systems are to critical thresholds for human habitation. There were 21,000 heat-related deaths in five European nations, and subsequent studies have found that most of the deceased were not likely to have died soon from other causes. Widespread wildfires and crop failures accompanied the human tragedy...